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... Alcatraz last night. It was funny and witty. I really enjoyed it, and I'm glad the sequel should be out soon.
I started Neuromancer, so I'm almost to the end of my first book stack! ... List now includes the following:
The Wednesday Wars
Feed
Alcatraz Versus the Evil Librarians by Brandon Sanderson
Neuromancer
Epic by Conor Kostick
The Invention of Hugo Cabret
The Looking Glass Wars
The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian by Sherman Alexi
Ha ... ... - No Enemy but Time
John Calvin Batchelor - The Birth of the People's Republic of Antarctica
William Gibson - Neuromancer ... of plot resolution, there was a big fire where everyone got scattered to the wind and out of the conflict. Not as good as Neuromancer or Pattern Recognition, my two favorites, but pretty damn good :) ... Nothing, Traitor to the Nation. 1 The Pox Party
The Wednesday Wars
Feed
Alcatraz Versus the Evil Librarians
Neuromancer
Epic (won't touchstone) by Conor Kostick
I've finished the movies so thee nothing distracting me from the books now and I'll let you know what I think ... ... World, some of the older classic authors that have been missed, like Issac Asimov, and some of the newer classics, like Neuromancer. I also think that there should be at least one book by each of the "Grand Masters", but that's just my opinion. It would be difficult for Neuromancer to predict the Internet, given that in 1972 there were 27 nodes on the Internet but Neuromancer wasn't published until 1984. Does Neuromancer predict the internet? I do not remember much about it. Now I guess I have to reread it.
It occurs to me that one thing science fiction writers almost never do is to predict that some trend will just stop, or that some thing that people have been predicting would happen for ... 28. Le scaphandre et le papillon by Jean-Dominique Bauby
pgs: 132.
29. Neuromancer by William Gibson
pgs: 271.
total pages: 7701
French books: 2/5 or 297/1000. ... Ghost Road, Pat Barker (1996)
24. Lonesome Dove, Larry McMurtry (1985)
25. The Joy Luck Club, Amy Tan (1989)
26. Neuromancer, William Gibson (1984)
27. Possession, A.S. Byatt (1990)
28. Naked, David Sedaris (1997)
29. Bel Canto, Anne Patchett (2001)
30. Case Histories, Kate ... ... but Stephenson always has a lot of good lines and good characters. Plus, I like the different settings described.
2. Neuromancer by William Gibson
The world it describes is obsolete now. That's usually a bad thing in SF, but the characters are just so cool that I enjoy re-reading it.
... I haven't read a lot of the N-books. Probably have to go with Neuromancer as the definitive Cyberpunk Scifi novel. I had a heck of a time getting into it at first because it thrusts the reader into this foreign future world with a culture and slang all of its own, but once you tune into what's ... ... Vinge's A Fire Upon the Deep, Neal Stephenson's Snowcrash, Tim Powers' Last Call, William Gibson's Neuromancer, and Dan Simmons' Carrion Comfort were still terrific to at least pretty good. Robert A. Heinlein's A Stranger in a Strange Land was practically ... ... to apologize to my brain for making it suffer so.
On the other hand, after much whining I went back and finally finished Neuromancer, which I was hating. And it ended so well I gave it four stars. So sometimes books redeem themselves.
And sometimes they're The Lovely Bones, which I wish I ... I've read Neuromancer!
Next up...Hard Times. I've read Watchmen- it's one of my favorite graphic novels, in fact. How about Neuromancer, by William Gibson? #36 ellevee: One of my little brother's he's thirty-two now favorite books is Neuromancer. I've never read it, though. * Iron Man: Demon In A Bottle
* Sweet And Low
* Four Past Midnight
* Swann's Way
* Neuromancer
* No Country For Old Men
* Food: A Culinary History
I swear, I read 9/10ths of a book, then wander off into another one. I've been trying to finish four books on this list for at ... #9 / #14
I'd say PK Dick wasn't the only writer classed as sci-fi who owes a debt to noir writing. Neuromancer and other early William Gibson novels are also very noir in feel. ... comic sf about a galactic super-thief turned undercover police agent. It's not cyberpunk. Important cyberpunk works include Neuromancer, Metrophage, Snow Crash, The Artificial Kid and Eclipse. ... things on LT is the ability to see how popular a book is and I'm often quite surprised . For example, William Gibson's Neuromancer is very popular (a lot more than I expected) and certainly anybody who liked it will love Hardwired and yet there are 26 times more Neuromancer on LT... ... ... any other Gibson stuff besides NEUROMANCER?
I have Burning Chrome, Count Zero and Virtual Light in addition to Neuromancer, but no, I haven't attempted any of the others yet.
I have been thinking about trying some other cyberpunk milestones like Heavy Weather or Snow Crash. I ... That's okay Sylvan. I'll back you up on your Neuromancer opinion. I can't criticise it too much because I've never read it. But three abortive attempts at such a short novel says something about it. (See my post #49.) Keanu Reeves in the remake of The Day the Earth Stood Still and Hayden Christensen in Neuromancer.
Am I the only one looking forward to the follow-up movie Klaatu Vs.Case? Flog me if you will, but I started Neuromancer three different times and always wind up tossing it aside around fifty pages in or so. For one thing I've realized that computer hackers will never be as hip and edgy as they are portrayed, but my real issue was it felt like he used 'plastic' 87 ... Just looked up Hayden Christensen for no real reason, and found that he's been cast as the lead in Neuromancer. ... still influences of it around but it's basically run its course. Probably the two most cited books are Snow Crash and Neuromancer. Sticking to strict science not always stuck to in this sub-genre.
Revival of Space Opera- 1984 - 2000. Still going on but not as fevered at the moment. Some ... ... better, so I don't think I will be reading that any time soon, as much as I would like to.
Apart from that, I have read Neuromancer, William Gibson. Brilliant book, I can see why practically spawned the Cyberpunk genre. Exciting story, excellent ideas - sentient AI, cyberspace, internet, ... ... Floating World -- Kazuo Ishiguro
25) The Handmaid's Tale -- Margaret Atwood
26) White Noise -- Don DeLillo
27) Neuromancer -- William Gibson
28) Life & Times of Michael K -- J. M. Coetzee
29) A Pale View of Hills -- Kazuo Ishiguro
30) A Confederacy of Dunces -- John Kenn ... ... /i>
William Gibson -
Count Zero Goundbreaking in it's day I think it may come through as dated today. Sequel to Neuromancer ... pre-date the New Wave. If you must have one from that era, then an early JG Ballard, or M. John Harrison.
Neuromancer was a seminal work, but I've heard that it's not aged well. There are plenty of more recent works that would be better than a 25-year-old (approx) novel - just ... For some reason I have been drawn back into the classics. I've just read Neuromancer by William Gibson, Stranger in a Strange Land by Robert A. Heinlein, Last Call by Tim Powers, and now Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson. I guess there aren't that many new books in my To Be Rea ... ... been some back-and-forth about idea lifting, because she had to put in a disclaimer saying her book had nothing to do with Neuromancer. ... her shortly after she was published, I am very interested in the comments of a group of readers who are currently reading Neuromancer. Many of them think that the book is too derivative and not very original. They are having a hard time wrapping their minds around the fact that many of the ... ... YUUUUUUCK.
(Ok, one caveat -- I liked In the beginning... was the command line by Stephenson.)
I hated Snow Crash, Neuromancer, Market Forces, and Glasshouse... ugh ugh ugh... I would include Bruce Sterling's Schismatrix in there as well, but oh jeez I don't even count him.
... Fort William Henry in Lake George Village.
To read Rupert Brooke, you ideally should be in Grantchester, at 2:50pm.
Neuromancer is properly read in a 'capsule' hotel in Chiba City. (Failing that, maybe at the scrap-electronics dealers on Canal Street)
Persuasion is properly read at ... ... The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. Le Guin (finished 4/10/08)
3) I, Robot by Isaac Asimov (finished 4/15/08)
4) Neuromancer by William Gibson (finished 4/22/08)
5) The Futurological Congress by Stanislaw Lem (finished 5/5/08)
6) The Host by Stephenie Meyer (finished 5/19/08)
7) ... ... (including collaborations with Shirley, Sterling and Swanwick). In retrospect, it would have helped me to read this before Neuromancer, as there is some overlap of themes, terminology, and even characters. I read Neuromancer for the first time not too long ago and was actually pretty disappointed. In the end, it's a retelling of an old story with a static set of characters. The book exhibits various logistical inconsistencies between its plot and the personalities contained therein. This combined ... > 78:
jseger9000 said of Neuromancer "And the tone seemed to want to be an edgier BladeRunner."
WG was writing Neuromancer at the time Blade Runner came out. He once said at a UK convention that he'd gone to see Blade Runner and had to leave after 20 minutes because it looked too much like ... Man, this will probably get me flogged, but Neuromancer was a clunker for me; twice. It's been years since I last tried it, but two different times I couldn't get more than fifty pages in.
I just remember it coming off as too self consciously hip and I got tired of reading the word 'plastic'. A ... ... State great book so far about 3/4 of the way thorough it now hopping to finish by this weekend. Last week I finished Neuromancer my first real foray in cyberpunk and loved it so I pickup the mirrorshades the other day so I think read that one next. ... up mostly because it was translated by one of my favourite writers, Alberto Manguel). Now I'm starting on William Gibson's Neuromancer, which I might have to write an essay on soon (so I'm taking furious notes). ... jasmeyer's suggestion (thanks!). Here are a few titles I think are sci-fi/fantasy:
Contact
The Handmaid's Tale
Neuromancer
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Interview with the Vampire
Slaughterhouse Five
2001: A Space Odyssey
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
S ... ... Game" reversed.
SF is used 114,219 times with these novels:
Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. Le Guin
Dune
Neuromancer by William Gibson
Now LT also provides a derived subject listing, and 520,832 books have been noted in LT with the subject of "science fiction". Here ... ... took notice if a female talked football... duh.
I no longer use that forum.
I've also used Molly - I picked it from the Neuromancer, of course. Initially I tried to use Molly here at LT too but it was taken. finished Neuromancer.
next is probably Cocaine Nights by J.G. Ballard Finishing up Neuromancer by Willaim Gibson, taking alot longer than expected, but its a really excellent novel.
and Ive been reading the aleph and other stories by Jorge Luis Borges. which are all interesting and havent read a dull one yet.
Next i'll probably move on to J.G. Ballard's ... ... just fly by. I like Scalzi's dry wit and thought-provoking worldbuildin.
The next book in line is William Gibson's Neuromancer. A bit late, I know. :-) reading Neuromancer by Willaim Gibson. great novel, have been in a sci-fi mood lately. The Wachowski brothers definently must have read it before they made The Matrix.
Next i'll probably read somthing by J.G. Ballard ... they did not entertain as much as Snow Crash. I think it was the second cyberpunk novel as Andyl mentioned I had read. Neuromancer by Gibson was the first, because you could not log onto the internet without hearing about the novel and upcoming movie. I liked Gibson's novel a lot but think S ... ... and much more accessible, but in retrospect maybe not as satisfying or intriguing. I have not read much Gibson, but Neuromancer is on my TBR list. (You might like that China Miélville work I note below.)
I am behind on recording my reading. Here is what I've finished:
#29 The ... ... Adams
A canticle for Leibowitz by Walter M. Miller Jr.
Stranger in a strange land by Robert A. Heinlein
Neuromancer by William Gibson
Children of Dune by Frank Herbert
To say nothing of the dog, or, How we found the bishop's bir… by Connie Willis
1984 ... ... by Ursula K. Le Guin (154)
Dune by Frank Herbert (227)
The demolished man by Alfred Bester (95)
Neuromancer by William Gibson (187)
A canticle for Leibowitz by Walter M. Miller Jr. (123)
Foundation by Isaac Asimov (146)
The stars my destination by ... ... pretty much has my 50 books.
Books I have started:
Letters from Earth
Virtual Death
The Glass Bead Game
Neuromancer
Strange Angel
I finished First Impressions: What You Don't Know About How Others See You. I hope to finish more by October of next year.
Take care,
T ... ... 9)
The hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy by Douglas Adams (523)
The ultimate hitchhiker's guide by Douglas Adams (358)
Neuromancer by William Gibson (344)
Speaker for the dead by Orson Scott Card (282)
Children of Dune by Frank Herbert (253)
Dune messiah by Frank Herbert (266)
The ... ... "science fiction" to see what came up there:
Dune by Frank Herbert (1503)
Ender's game by Orson Scott Card (1343)
Neuromancer by William Gibson (1037)
The hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy by Douglas Adams (1187)
Foundation by Isaac Asimov (783)
Stranger in a strange land by Rob ... ... Stranger in a Strange Land did at the time. Interesting, the quotation from Gibson...I had a strange feeling reading Neuromancer that he had been influenced by Dhalgren! ... so that touchstones won't go crazy.)
The listed readings: (six sections total)
"Core Readings"
William Gibson (Neuromancer, Count Zero, Mona Lisa Overdrive, Virtual Light, Idoru, All Tomorrow's Parties)
Bruce Sterling (The Artificial Kid, Schismatrix Plus) ... one of the issues I was thinking about when I recommended the Orwell. In this country most have heard of Orwell from 1984 and Animal Farm, but not so much from his travels and essays, criticism, etc. Being from GB you probably got a lot more exposure to him than most Americans.
Anyway ... ... Rider and some of James Tiptree's short work are also deemed of lesser importance (incorrectly in my view) than Neuromancer.
Rudy Rucker is an interesting case. He is widely touted as one of the pioneers of cyberpunk mainly for Software but he quickly left it behind for his ... ... now have wires threaded through their brains with electric current controlers embedded in their chests.
Reading Neuromancer today doesn't have the same impact as it did in the mid-80s. It is still respected because of what it started and because it was leading edge when it came out. I ... Which Gibson and Stephenson books did you try? I found Neuromancer to be clunky in style, but I enjoyed some of his later work. As for Stephenson, his work has been described as post-cyberpunk at times. Did you try The Diamond Age?
I notice you didn't mention the father of cyberpunk (eve ... Okay, I'm closing the voting.
The Caves of Steel won with 9 votes.
The two runner ups were Neuromancer with 7, and Left Hand of Darkness with 6.
You folk have a few weeks to get your hands on a copy, so don't fret, J_ipsen. I won't be starting any discussion threads until Early October. ... the other books at all (except Fahrenheit, which I've read), so I'm going by work page first impressions and chance.
Neuromancer! ... of Steel by Isaac Asimov
Childhood's End by Arthur C. Clarke
City by Clifford D. Simak (wrong touchstone)
Neuromancer by William Gibson
Dune by Frank Herbert
The Moon is a Harsh Mistress by Robert A. Heinlein
Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
The Day of the Tr ... ... that one either, but I think it was more time constraints than quality, it's on my "try again" list...
Just gave up on Neuromancer, I was lost and confused; so going to read Portrait as Young Dog tonight and start Fortress of Solitude by J. Lethem. Ok, maybe something like Neuromancer? ... would like L'écume des jours by Boris Vian - that's clearly an oversight.
Snow Crah is a nice idea, but since only Neuromancer is on the list, I'd rather add some more Gibson than one by Stephenson.
La classe de neige is another favourite of mine that would be a nice addition. ... least for me) was The Shockwave Rider - a book more influential on how we interact and view computers and society than Neuromancer and written a decade earlier. His second tier books are also well worth reading.
I would also add Brian Aldiss, Jack Vance, Robert Silverberg ... ... date and boggle).
I firmly believe that Snow Crash will be looked back on as a classic every bit as important as Neuromancer, if not more so. Neal Stephenson hasn't written anything I don't like.
Oh, you should also check out the TagMash for "d8ff752 in Science Fiction Fans : Advice re Classic SciFi (Aug 29, 2007, 12:48am) ... is sort of a modern classic (although, classic sci fi at this point is still relatively young) due to his internet themes: neuromancer his first novel is a must read for sure
pohl and herbert and bradbury and clarke have come up already, which is important, but how about some ... ... haven't read the book to come up with the "objective," eternal answer.
It is something close to an objective fact that Neuromancer and Snow Crash are Cyperpunk, but the term hasn't been blessed by the LC. In the same vein, Bridget Jones's Diary is chick lit, whether you like it or not. N ... ... Haldeman
Armor by John Steakley
Clay's Ark by Octavia E. Butler
Raising the Stones by Sheri Tepper
Neuromancer by William Gibson
I could keep going, but I'll stop there. And I still need to add all of those and more into LT. There are 13 copies of Neuromancer showing up with Bernard Jensen as an author. I don't think the author of Tissue cleansing through bowel management has contributed to the graphic version of Gibson's novel. I believe it should be Bruce Jensen. The error seems to come from Amazon and I've ... ... by Ursula K. Le Guin, especially Left Hand of Darkness, Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale, William Gibson's Neuromancer, Jirel of Joiry, many more. I've bought many copies of Childhood's End and a few others to loan out and never get back. Just got my 1984 copy of Neuromancer by William Gibson signed last night. The book means almost nothing to me because I've never read it, but from a mercenary increased valuation standpoint, I'm amped and stoked (as they used to say for a brief moment in time) about finally getting Gibson's ... ... is--nominally speaking--a SF writer.
Actually, that's not exactly true. Gibson's early work, including the oft-cited Neuromancer as well as several stories in the fantastic Burning Chrome collection, have often included elements of tradecraft, mostly (but not always) in the context of ... ... and Lathe of Heaven are good ones. Although many of Tepper's novels are post-apocalyptic. I also consider Gibson's Neuromancer trilogy to be dystopian. Another real dog was Neuromancer. It was a gift so I tried, but couldn't do it. ... that worked was LT. What a lovely week that would be.
Anyway. Up next (probably not in this order):
* Dermaphoria
* Neuromancer
* A Passage To India
* Don Quixote
And all the books I started and didn't finish. I need to give up my life for about a week, like I said. Or maybe a ... ... so, a genre title breaks out into best-sellerdom, and sells in the millions: Dune in the 60s, Ender's Game in the 70s, Neuromancer in the 80s... Cryptonomicon, perhaps, for the 90s?
But the genre chugs along even in years without runaway hits.
Let's guess that it's 20% of new books ... ... Sheep (aka Bladerunner) by Philip K. Dick, and the early novels of William Gibson starting with the innovative Neuromancer; though some might argue these types of novels are not within the formal range of 'Dystopian Literature'?
As for 'Post-Apocalyptic' that opens the door to ... ... (like Bradbury did in his Mars stories). Even the most basic of things can throw future readers. Take the first line of Neuromancer by William Gibson as an example. Today, TV's present a deep dark blue when tuned to a dead or non-existent channel - there is going to be obvious ... Je n'ai pas aimé le Neuromancien trop calcul-matématico...bref j'ai eu du mal à rentrer dedans. Imaginez vous devoir lire Matrix, jepense que cela serait trop difficile à se représenter et bien là c'est pareil
idem pour la cité des permutants
sentiment partagé pour un ovni: l'étoil ... Moi j'en ai lu 3 parmi sa liste
neuromancien j'ai pas aimé
fahrenheit 451 un bon bouquin
solaris je suis pas rentrée dedans
Et vous? ...
I Capture the Castle by Dodie Smith.
The sky above the port was the color of television, tuned to a dead channel.
Neuromancer by William Gibson.
"As the London divisions of the glorious troops of the Fatherland march proudly past the gauleiter's podium, they salute the Thousand Year ... ... doesn't open till 11:00am. So I had 20 minutes to kill and wandered half-a-mile to the used book emporium.
Result: Neuromancer, by William Gibson. I've heard about it for years, so I thought I ought to try it.
Then I went back and bought the fish. ...
- Night Watch by Terry Pratchett
"The sky above the port was the color of television, tuned to a dead channel."
- Neuromancer by William Gibson
"This book is largely concerned with Hobbits, and from its pages a reader may discover much of their character and a little of their ... I recently tossed aside Neuromancer.
I tossed aside Neuromancer three or four times before finally finishing it. It has some sort of weak spot early on, about a chapter in, and for some reason, it was hard to get past that point. But when I did, I liked the rest, and was impressed ... ... Holmes
20,000 Leagues Under the Sea
Tarzan
The Wild Cards Series
A lot of the Eternal Champion - the older part.
Neuromancer
The Drenai Saga
Batman
All Ian Fleming's James Bond.
Conan
Watchmen
Kingdom Come
The Authority
Stormwatch
The League of Extraordinary G ... I have to go with the classics on this one - Neuromancer. It was the first I'd read, and remains my favourite to this day. ... Silicon Man" de Charles PLATT
"La parabole du semeur" "Parable of the Sower" de Octavia E. BUTLER
"Neuromancien" "Neuromancer" de William GIBSON
"Legion of the Damned" de William C. DIETZ
"Marionnettes humaines" "The Puppet Masters" de Robert A. HEINLEIN
"Fahrenheit 451" ... Neuromancer by William Gibson.
The Tree of Life, A Garden of Pomegranates, both by Regardie.
_The Conscience of a Hacker_, by the Mentor. Yes, I'm serious.
Liber Null and Psychonaut by Carroll.
The C Programming Language by Brian Kernighan.
The 21st Century Mage by Jason Newcomb. I recently tossed aside Neuromancer. I've heard Gibson is supposed to be a good sci-fi author, but I really didn't like him. It just felt like something a highschooler would write. I just started Neuromancer by William Gibson a few days ago, which is a loaner from my girlfriend. I'm about halfway through already, and it's predictably interesting and addictive.
That interrupted reading Against the Day by Thomas Pynchon, which will take a long time to read, but ... ...
Some of the very best SF of the last 20-some years appears on the PKD list.
Anyone have any favorites?
(Besides Neuromancer, I mean....)
(edited to follow natantus' idea, and add the link to the Wikipedia article on the PKD award:)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philip_K._D ... ... I think they're few, even over a long timespan. I can think of Lord of the Ring in the fantasy field, and more recently Neuromancer (not best ever written book, but novel in certain ways when first published?) ... if they are not the best written. In my opinion this is the only justification for putting the Foundation trilogy and neuromancer so high on the list.
Some of the entries are series rather than books: Foundation, Cities in Flight, Thomas Covenant series 1, Book of the New sun, you could ... ... are somewhat gritty loosers, or have personal traits (as drug addiction) that I frankly could live without. Molly from the Neuromancer-books, or Raf from the Grimwoods Arabesque-suite or... You know what I mean.
I guess that it's the stories more than the characters that does it for me (eve ... I haven't posted in a while, so I thought I'd dive in with a new (mildly) loathed "classic": Neuromancer.
I read this back in high school because I was on this kick of reading books to improve my general knowledge of literature, to broaden my horizons, to not feel so clueless around my peers ... ...
Fight Club - Chuck Palahniuk
Harry Potter and the Sorcerers Stone (Book 1) - J.K. Rowling
Neuromancer - William Gibson
Cryptonomicon - Neal Stephenson
The Secret History - Donna Tartt
A Clockwork Orange ... It's not Pynchon. I have none by that author. I
It was probably William Gibson's Neuromancer, which I didn't even read. I just started to read it, hated it, and sent it along unread on a bookray through BookCrossing to others who did want to read it.
http://www.bookcrossing.com/journal/ ... ... all the rage over there, honest!).
As for my best find, it would have to be the VG+ 1984 ACE charter mass market copy of Neuromancer that I found in a box while loading books onto LibraryThing. I'd completely forgotten I owned it (need I say it's wrapped in taped plastic bag, natch); now, if ...
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